Protract

Definition: Protract

Protract

Verb

1. Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer: "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "protract" was first used: 15th century. (references)

Synonyms: Protract

Diffuseness

Digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize.

Diuturnity

Tarry; (be late); drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time.

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Length

Render long; Adjective: lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong, produce, protract; let out, draw out, spin out; drawl.

Crosswords: Protract

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "protract": protract one's visit. Additional references.

Albanian

zgjatoj (elongate, hold out, lengthen, linger, prolong, reach), zgjat (delay, elongate, extend, hold out, last, lengthen, let down, linger, postpone, prolong, reach, reach out, spread, stretch, telescope), zgjas (carry over, delay, drag out, draw out, elongate, extend, lengthen, let down, postpone, project, prolong, spin out, spread, stretch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مد (add to, dilate, distend, draw out, elongate, equip with, expand, extend, extension, furnish, help, lengthen, lengthening, outspread, outstretch, prolong, prolongate, prolongation, protraction, provide, respite, spread, stretch, supply with), ‏خطط (adumbrate, blueprint, chart, delimit, delineate, design, draught, limn, line, model, pencil in, plan, program, programme, project, scheme, set out, streak, stripe, trace), ‏أطال (drag out, draw out, elongate, extend, prolong, spin), ‏أخر (delay, detain, intercept, postpone, put back, retard, set back, wait), ‏أرجأ (defer, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put off, remit, reserve, respite, waive), ‏رسم (block, charge, daub, depict, depiction, describe, description, design, draft, draught, draw, drawing, etch, etching, exhibit, figure to oneself, formalize, image, impost, lay, lay out, limn, line, mark out, pattern, pencil, picture, plotter, portray, portrayal, scrawl, sketch, tableau, trace, trace over, weave). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удължавам (elongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, stretch), чертая (construct, delineate, describe, draw, figure, line, plan, plot), начертавам (lay, line, rule, run, trace), протягам (extend, shoot out, spread, stick out, stretch, thrust out), проточвам, протакам (drag, draw out, put over, wiredraw), провлачвам (drag out), продължавам (carry on, continue, extend, go ahead, go on, keep, keep on, last, lengthen, proceed, produce, prolong, prosecute, push on, reach, resume, spread, stretch). (various references)

Chinese 

延长 (Elongating, Extended, Prolong, Prolongation, Prolonged, Prolonging, Protracted, Protracting). (various references)

Czech

protahovat (drag out), prodlužovat (draw out, spin out), rýsovat (draw, shadow, shadow forth). (various references)

Dutch

verlenging van getuigenverhoor (leave to protract an enquiry), op de kaart aanbrengen (to protract, to trace a map), karteren (surveying, to protract, to trace a map), in kaart brengen (to protract, to trace a map). (various references)

Farsi 

کش دادن (Strain, Stretch), طول دادن (Extend), امتداددادن (Prolong, Stretch), درازکردن (Extend, Lengthen, Prolong). (various references)

Finnish

venyttää (draw out, expand, stretch), venytellä (draw out, expand, stretch). (various references)

French

prolonger (produce, prolong), planifier, retarder, faire traîner, faire durer, dessiner. (various references)

German

verschleppen (abduct, carry off, delay, draw out, go off with, spread), verlängern (eke out, elongate, extend, lengthen, make longer, produce, project, prolong, renew, to elongate, to extend, to lengthen), in die länge ziehen (drag out), hinausziehen (drag out, go out, move out, prolong, pull out). (various references)

Greek 

παρατείνω (drag, draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong, spin out). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"אריך (draw out, elongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, spin out, sustain). (various references)

Hungarian

meghosszabbít (elongate, extend, prolong, to elongate, to extend, to lengthen, to prolong), kihúz (cross out, delete, drag out, draw out, get out, obliterate, pull off, pull out, score out, scratch out, spin out, strike out, to delete, to educe, to excise, to extract, to extricate, to line through, to obliterate, to protract, to pull out, to pull up, to rive sg away, to rive sg off, to unclench, to unclinch), késleltet (defer, delay, hang up, retard, to delay, to intermit, to protract, to put back, to retard, to slacken, to slow, to stay, to throw back). (various references)

Italian

protratto (delayed, protracted), protrarre (continue, defer, extend, prolong), prolungato. (various references)

Manx

tayrn rere scailley (protraction), sheeyney magh (attenuate, attenuation, distend, distention, expand, expansion, extend, fork out, hold out, lengthen, pass round, prolong, protraction, push out, put out, reach, stretch out, unfold, unfold as landscape), lhiuraghey (elongate, extension, prolongation, stretch out, stretching). (various references)

Pig Latin

otractpray

Portuguese

protrair, protelar (defer, linger, put off, shelve, stave off, stay, wait, waive), prolongar (continue, eke out, elongate, extend, lengthen, piece, prolong, spin), espaçar (interspace), dilatar (dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, get about, plump, swell), demorar (dally, defer, delay, draggle, dwell, hold up, keep up, linger, procrastinate, prolong, retard, slow, tarry, wait). (various references)

Romanian

prelungi (drive, eke out, extend, last, lengthen, pause on, prolong, spread), nota pe un plan, lungi (dilate, dilute, draw out, eke out, extend, lengthen, let down, spin out, stretch), extinde (delocalize, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, improve, pull, push, spread, stretch, widen), amâna (adjourn, continue, dally, delay, drive, hang up, hold over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put by, put off, refer, reprieve, shunt, stay). (various references)

Russian 

тянуть (drag, drag out, draw, extend, haul, heave, pull, pulled, round in, tote, tug). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

produžiti (carry forward, elongate, extend, go on ahead, hold over, keep up, lengthen, proceed, prolong, prosecute, resume), razvući (open, prolong, stretch), odugovlačiti (be slow, drag out, procrastinate, spin, stonewall, tarry, temporize). (various references)

Spanish

prolongar (carry, extend, lengthen, produce, prolong, prolongate, spin out), sacar (bring out, bring up, draw, draw out, educe, elicit, extract, fetch, get, let, produce, put out, screw, take, take out, throw in, throw out), alargar (accord, convey, draw out, drop, dwell on, elongate, extend, give, hand, hand over, hold out, lengthen, let down, pass, put forth, put out, reach, spend, spin out, strech out, throw out, touch). (various references)

Swedish

förlänga (be extended, elongate, extend, lengthen, produce, prolong). (various references)

Turkish

uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, draw out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, pull out, rack, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, turn to, wiredraw), süresini uzatmak, küçük ölçekle planını çizmek, iletki ile çizmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

розтягувати (balloon, distend, elongate, overblow, pull, spin out, spread out, stretch), тягти (drag, draggle, draw, drawl, haul, lug, pluck, pug, pull, rush, tow, trail), накреслювати (delineate, describe), зволікати, продовжувати (carry, carry on, continue, elongate, go ahead, go along, go on, keep on, proceed, produce, prolong, prolongate, prosecute, pursue, resume). (various references)

protraham, protrahantur, protrahas, protraxisti, protraxit. (various references)

protractionem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "protract": protracted, protractile, protracting, protraction, protractions, protractive, protractor, protractors, protracts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Protract" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: portrat, portratt, protact, protra, protrac, protrait. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: carport, tractor.

-2 letters: captor, carrot, cartop, cottar, parrot, raptor, trocar.

-3 letters: actor, aport, coapt, copra, cotta, ottar, taroc, tarot, tract, trapt.

-4 letters: arco, atop, capo, carp, carr, cart, coat, crap, crop, orca, orra, pact, parr, part, port, prao, prat, proa, rapt, rato, roar, rota, taco, tact, taro, tarp, tart, tora, torc, torr, tort, trap.

+1 letter: carrottop, protracts.

+2 letters: carrottops, protracted, protractor.

+3 letters: corporatist, cotransport, counterpart, protectoral, protractile, protracting, protraction, protractive, protractors, tetrasporic, triceratops.

+4 letters: carrottopped, cotransports, counterparts, participator, postfracture, practitioner, precipitator, protectorate, protractions, sportscaster, trichopteran.

+5 letters: anticorporate, containerport, cotransported, intertropical, participators, participatory, postfractures, practitioners, precipitators, procrastinate, protectorates, sportscasters, stratospheric, transcription, triceratopses, trichopterans.